Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper, American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology, helping to devise UNIVAC I, the first commercial electronic computer, and naval applications for COBOL. Learn more about Hopper’s life and career.

The world is waking up to the contributions of Grace Murray Hopper ’28, computer pioneer, Navy rear admiral, and former Vassar assistant professor. Read about Hopper and how she continues to influence young women in computer science.

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Introduced March 1951 The immediate post-war years saw the first viable commercial and scientific computers hitting the market, such as the LEO I and Ferranti Mark 1 in the UK and the UNIVAC I in the United States. These huge, heavy, power hungry, expensive and slow computers are very primitive by today’s standards, but they found their niche in corporations and laboratories. UNIVAC I in use at the US Census Office Rather like the British LEO I, the UNIVAC I was a business computer made up…

Born Dec. 9, 1906, Grace Murray Hopper was, among other things, a brilliant mathematician and computer scientist; a high-ranking U.S. Navy officer; and a gifted teacher and communicator. So it’s not difficult to understand why she was nicknamed “Amazing Grace” by her subordinates in the Navy once upon a time. The New York native died

Download this stock image: Hopper works on a manual tape punch computer, 1944. Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvar - G16EFG from Alamy's library of millions of high resolution stock photos, illustrations and vectors.

#100Days100Women Day 34: Grace Murray Hopper Rear Admiral Hopper joined the service during WWII. During the war she was one of the first programmers. Afterwards she lead the way in software development concepts, including programming languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

She recorded the first computer bug when a moth got caught in a relay switch